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Facility Based Care Advocate, Portland, Oregon - Full-time / Part-time
•30 days ago
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Portland, OR Portland, Oregon |
About this job
For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond counseling services and verified referrals to behavioral health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us and help people live healthier lives while doing your life's best work.(SM)
The role of a Care Advocate is to secure appropriate aftercare for all consumers accessing acute hospital services in order to meet Customer HEDIS FUH Performance Guarantees.
The role of a Care Advocate is to secure appropriate aftercare for all consumers accessing acute hospital services in order to meet Customer HEDIS FUH Performance Guarantees.
*** Work Hours: Flexible schedule available between the hours of 8am to 7:00pm CST Monday - Friday ***
Responsibilities include:
- Focusing on initial concurrent reviews for higher levels of care, ie: Inpatient, Residential and Partial hospital admissions. inpatient admission for psychiatric and chemical dependency patients via telephone.
- Making patient assessments and determining appropriate levels of care.
- Obtaining information from providers on outpatient requests for treatment. Facility Based Care Advocates only work with providers for outpatient request prior to discharge from inpatient, residential and partial levels of care.
- Determining if additional clinical treatment sessions are needed.
- Managing inpatient and outpatient (Intermediate levels of care, ie: Residential and Partial) mental health/substance abuse cases throughout the entire treatment plan.
- Administering benefits and reviewing treatment plans.
- Coordinating benefits and transitions between various areas of care.
- Identifying ways to add value to treatment plans and consulting with facility staff or outpatient care providers on those ideas.
- Overseeing the facility based care experience.
Requirements
- Licensed Master's degree-level clinician in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or Marriage or Family Counseling OR Licensed Ph.D., or an RN with experience in behavioral health.
- Licenses must be active and unrestricted in the state of Missouri
- MS Office proficiency with Word, Outlook and the ability to talk and type at the same time
- 2 years of clinical experience with behavioral or mental health in an inpatient and/or outpatient setting
Additional Preferred Assets:
- 2+ years of experience in behavioral and/or mental health in an Inpatient or Substance Abuse Facility
- Dual diagnosis experience with mental health and substance abuse
- Experience working in an environment that required coordination of benefits and utilization of multiple groups and resources for patients
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM
OptumHealth is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.
If you want more meaning in your career - as a clinician or a business professional - think of OptumHealth as your calling. By providing 60 million Americans with information, tools and solutions, we are helping to guide them through the health care system, financing their health care needs, and enabling them to achieve their personal health and well-being goals.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
Job Keywords: Clinical, Clinician, Psychology, Social Work, Substance Abuse, LPC, LCSW, LMFT, Ph.D., RN, Registered Nurse, Behavioral Health, Mental Health, Portland, Oregon, OR